If it's not one thing, it's another. That was the mix for the Chautauqua County Board of Health during its meeting Thursday evening.
The meeting may have been dominated by the new surge of COVID-19 across the county and the efforts to deal with it while persuading people to be vaccinated. However, there were also problems with the water in Dunkirk and Fredonia, dirty restaurants, mosquitoes, West Nile Virus and the decrepit Busti Mobile Home Park.
Public Health Director Christine Schuyler said the mobile home park was a special problem.
"We had to ensure that if there was any possibility that we could get the owner of the park to bring that mobile home park quickly up to livable condition so people were not at imminent risk of health and safety problems and we needed to do that in lieu of making people homeless," she said.
"Portion of that was put in abeyance, but they have agreed to settle with these violations and they have paid a total of $2,850, as of Sept. 13," said Health Department Sanitarian Douglas Hamernik.
The unidentified owner has also agreed to make repairs and haul away the worst of the trailers.
Schuyler said West Nile appeared in a horse.
"West Nile Virus positive horse. The horse is being treated, but that is the first we've had for that in the county this year," Schuyler said.
Schuyler said Albany also hasn't done its usual routine testing for Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
